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~ryiron
Personal blog · ryiron.wordpress.comsecurityprogramminggames
~ryiron is a personal blog at ryiron.wordpress.com about security, programming and games. Since 2017, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Argv Silliness (2013)”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this 2013 post, "argv silliness", which covers a polkit pkexec argv-handling issue; commenters point to it as an earlier write-up of the bug later exploited as Pwnkit.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Argv Silliness (2013)5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-01-26
What Hacker News says?
And it was spotted in 2013: https://ryiron.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/argv-silliness/
Comment linking /2013/12/16/argv-silliness/
on “Pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)”Submitted Finding the Lost Vikings – Reversing a Virtual Machine as a story · 165 points
HN discussionThe piece of polkit that this exploits was blogged about in 2013: https://ryiron.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/argv-silliness/
Comment linking /2013/12/16/argv-silliness/
on “Pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec”Submitted Recompiling the Lost Vikings as a story · 120 points
HN discussionSubmitted Legendary Wings – Reversing a 1980s Arcade Game as a story · 48 points
HN discussionSubmitted Argv Silliness (2013) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Argv silliness – pkexec vuln (2013) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Argv Silliness as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finding the Lost Vikings – Reversing a Virtual Machine as a story · 1 points
HN discussion